Indian Passport for New Born Baby

PChinna on 26/10/2020 - 17:15

Hi

I recently applied for passport (India) for my newborn baby. Unfortunately, they sent my application back for some minor corrections.

One of their comments was "place of birth on the application form should match with the supporting documents".

My baby's birth certificate has place of birth as "XXXXX hospital (hospital name), XXXX (suburb name)". I wrote on application as " XXXX (suburb name)" [I have not written hospital name]. Hospital name on a passport does not look appropriate for me.

Do I need to write the complete hospital name in application? I tried to contact their customer support and due to lockdown, they are not open. Their response to emails takes weeks.

Anyone here has applied for their children (Indian) passport? I really appreciate your responses to my question?

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Comments

  • ilsan0 on 26/10/2020 - 17:17

    Place of Birth should be the city i think.
    Not the suburb

    • dust on 26/10/2020 - 17:25
      +2

      Place of birth for Australian passports are the suburb, not the city. Not sure if that's the same for Indian passports.

    • GangGang on 26/10/2020 - 19:12
      +1

      My passport has suburb.

  • kanmen on 26/10/2020 - 17:34
    +1

    Did a simple google search for you. It seems to suggest if your child was born outside of India you put the Country.

    • PChinna on 26/10/2020 - 18:34

      But this is for the paper application. Now the Indian embassy made everything online and for online application, place of birth is a mandatory column.

  • dixy on 26/10/2020 - 18:08

    Just thinking - Should'nt child born in Australia automatically becomes Au citizen and you would be applying for Au passort. Unless you mean you are applying for Indian OCI?

    • uncompressed on 26/10/2020 - 18:12
      +2

      No, it also depends on the residency status of the parents.

    • PChinna on 26/10/2020 - 18:13

      if either parent is PR or citizen, then the newborn baby is an Australian citizen. I am on the work visa at the moment.

    • xuqi on 26/10/2020 - 18:36
      +2

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_tourism

      "In an effort to discourage birth tourism, Australia, France, Pakistan, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom have modified their citizenship laws at different times, mostly by granting citizenship by birth only if at least one parent is a citizen of the country or a legal permanent resident who has lived in the country for several years."

  • Cave Fire on 26/10/2020 - 18:41

    This is typical. I put my suburb and postcode for an overseas package once. They rejected this saying they wanted city instead. In some large countries, the suburbs are repeated. So they want the city name to be safer.

    • PChinna on 26/10/2020 - 19:54

      Thanks. But her birth certificate has the suburb name, not the city (Melbourne) name.

  • Tomhaigh1 on 26/10/2020 - 19:57

    Ask here, ozbargian is not the right place.
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/Indians1nSydney/

  • spunkyfondue on 27/10/2020 - 10:23
    +2

    It's the Indian passport office. What did you expect? Use the exact same address as in the supporting document.
    I've had an application rejected because of a missing comma. Making your life difficult is a a part of their KPIs

    • Nice one baby on 27/10/2020 - 10:27
      +2

      Yes. Do the needful.

      • kev98 on 14/11/2020 - 16:07

        Throw an extra hundred rupee in the envelope to grease the application

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